Call for Papers : The Japanese Political Economy

Announcement of Renewed Journal: The Japanese Political Economy

The Japanese Political Economy has now been rejuvenated and renewed with a new Editor, new Co-editors and new international Editorial Board. It continues Japanese Economic Studies; a leading journal published continuously since 1972. Robert Rowthorn, Makoto Itoh, Diane Elson, Jayati Ghosh, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Costas Lapavitsas, Engelbert Stockhammer, François Chesnais, Tomoo Marukawa, James Heintz, Richard Westra, and Robert Albritton have contributed to the first five issues of the renewed JPE. All the abstracts and free introductions are available on the website.

Vol 42 I-IV (2016)
Nobuharu Yokokawa, Editorial. (Free access)
Makoto Itoh, Robert Rowthorn & Jayati Ghosh “The structural change in the world economy with a decay in advanced countries.”
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov “Impact of shareholder-value pursuit on labor policies at Japanese joint-stock companies: Case of Nikkei Index 400.”
Myles Carroll “Production, reproduction, and crisis in Heisei Japan.”
Chie Aoyagi, Giovanni Ganelli & Nour Tawk “Minimum wage as a wage policy tool in Japan.”
Toshihiko Hayashi “Can a population-declining Japan sustain growth?”

Vol. 43 I-IV (2017) “Structural Changes in Asia: does the services sector lead growth?”
Nobuharu Yokokawa and C. P. Chandrasekhar “Introduction.” (Free access)
Sukti Dasgupta, Kee Beom Kim, and Luis Pinedo Caro “As much to be gained by merchandise as manufacture? The role of services as an engine of growth.”
C. P. Chandrasekhar “Alternative ‘models’ of structural transformation in Asia and their implications.”
Tomoo Marukawa “Sharing Economy in China and Japan.”
Kang-Kook Lee “Growth, Inequality and Structural Changes in Korea: Egalitarian Growth and Its Demise.”

Vol. 44 I-IV (2018) “Is a feminist perspective necessary for understanding the economy?”
Jayati Ghosh. Introduction (Free access)
Diane Elson, “Intersections of Gender and Class in the Distribution of Income.”
Jayati Ghosh, “Gendered labour markets and capitalist accumulation.”
James Heintz, “Gender, Population Dynamics, and Growth: The Interplay Between Economic Structure and Demographics.”
Franklin Obeng-Odoom, “Critique of Development Economics”

Vol. 45 I-II (2019) “Money, Finance, and Capitalist Crisis”
Costas Lapavitsas and Nobuharu Yokokawa. Introduction. (Free access)
Costas Lapavitsas, “Profitability trends in the era of financialization: Notes on the US economy.”
Junji Tokunaga, “The Comparative Advantage of the U.S. Shadow Banking System and the U.S. Dollar.”
Engelbert Stockhammer, “Building blocks for the macroeconomics and political economy of housing.”
Makoto Nishibe, “Marx’s  Financial Capitalism.”
François Chesnais, “Financialization and the impasse of capitalism.”

Vol. 45 III-IV (2019) “Is the Uno School approach relevant to understanding present-day capitalism?”
Richard Westra, Introduction. (Free access)
Makoto Itoh, “How to Apply Uno Theory to Contemporary Capitalism in Multiple Crises.”
Thomas T. Sekine, “The Legend of Unoism in Japan.”
Richard Westra, “An Unoist Perspective on the Agrarian Question in Capitalist Development.”
Robert Albritton, “Buy Now, Pay Later: The Great Unravelling of the Commodity-form.”

Please encourage your institution to subscribe to JPE, and I hope you will consider submitting manuscripts.

Nobuharu Yokokawa
Editor, Japanese Political Economy
yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp